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- Brown Ensnared in His Own Tapegate Trap - November 19, 2009
- A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the mass media. Hence, many readers may have felt little outrage when they read a few...
- Scots Outraged Over Bomber's Release - November 15, 2009
- EDINBURGH -- Do not believe that Scotland was united behind Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to grant "compassionate" release to the terminally ill convicted...
- The Shrink and the Terrorist - November 10, 2009
- There have been two views on what happened last week when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on unarmed military colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and...
- D.C.'s 'Failure To Launch' National Health Care Policy - November 8, 2009
- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee health care bill includes a provision that would allow parents to keep their children as dependents on their...
- There Is No Honor; There's Only Killing - November 5, 2009
- The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent out its usual roundup Tuesday of news stories alleging the mistreatment of Muslims in America. There was a story critical...
- No Fireworks with Harmer, Garamendi - October 30, 2009
- No journalist who has followed Lt. Gov. John Garamendi over the years could be surprised at his answer to the final question at Monday night's debate at St. Mary's...
- License To Drive While Unlicensed - October 27, 2009
- Mayor Gavin Newsom's office has argued that San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy protects undocumented immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding residents. But as The...
- The Long and the Short of Steve Poizner - October 26, 2009
- Why isn't Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner doing better in his bid for governor? On paper, Poizner is a solid contender. He's the only Republican elected to...
- The Real Flaw: Fox Is a No-Fawn Zone - October 22, 2009
- The Obama White House's war on Fox News heated up when President Obama appeared on five Sunday talk shows in September, but snubbed Fox's Chris Wallace. Then White House...
- Buying the Votes of Senior Citizens - October 20, 2009
- It's hard to instill confidence in the U.S. economy when Washington keeps finding new and creative ways to spend money it doesn't have. Take President Obama's proposal...
- Bipartisan Facade Can't Hide Health Plan's Flaws - October 18, 2009
- If the Democrats' health care package is so great, why are President Obama and Dem congressional leaders so hungry to share the credit for its passage with a...
- The Bay Area Bridge That Time Forgot - October 15, 2009
- On Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake brought down a chunk of the upper deck of the Oakland-Bay Bridge onto the lower deck. Anamafi Moala Kalushia, 23, of...
- What Happened to Global Warming? - October 13, 2009
- "What happened to global warming?" read the headline -- on BBC News on Oct. 9, no less. Consider it a cataclysmic event: Mainstream news organizations have begun...
- Lose at the Ballot, Push! for Payback at the Bench - October 11, 2009
- Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker opened the gates to hell this month when he ruled that strategists for Proposition 8 -- the 2008 ballot measure, passed by 52...
- Dems Change Stance on Military and Afghanistan - October 10, 2009
- At the Democratic National Convention in Denver last summer, then-Sen. Barack Obama pledged to "finish the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan." Lately Obama has...
- The Second City Becomes Fourth City - October 6, 2009
- If you want to understand why some conservatives were gleeful over Chicago's fourth-place finish in its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games -- after President...
- Newsom's Nanny Problem - October 4, 2009
- It's been a long, strange trip since Gavin Newsom became San Francisco's mayor. When he first ran for City Hall's top job, Newsom led with a campaign to do something...
- Senators Have Crossed Wires on Security - October 1, 2009
- On Tuesday, Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan immigrant who was a teenager in Queens during the Sept. 11 attacks, pleaded not guilty to federal terrorism conspiracy...
- L.A. Is Not 'Chinatown' - September 29, 2009
- Our Betters in Europe, of course, are outraged that Switzerland arrested and may allow the extradition of film director Roman Polanski, 76, a fugitive from California...
- The Democrats' Hypocrisy - September 20, 2009
- Democrats seem to have shifted their thinking on a number of issues since President Obama took the oath of office. Figure some Dems have more faith in government with a...
- Inside the Glorious Nation of ACORN - September 17, 2009
- I would not go see the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" because I found more cruelty than humor in deliberately...
- ObamaCare is Too Good to Be True - September 13, 2009
- Toward the end of his speech on health care Wednesday night, President Obama said that he had been thinking a lot about the phrase "the character of our country." Too...
- Van Jones Meets America - September 9, 2009
- One of the (many) irritating things about being a Republican in the liberal Bay Area is the certainty that if there is a story out there that makes conservatives look...
- You Really Don't Know Jack - September 9, 2009
- "You Don't Know Jack" is the perfect title for the upcoming HBO biopic starring Al Pacino as Death Doc Jack Kevorkian -- because it is clear that many of Kevorkian's...
- Too Much Gained in Afghanistan To Exit Now - September 6, 2009
- As he campaigned for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama argued that Afghanistan should become "the central front in the battle against terrorism." Obama has delivered on...
- How They Missed Jaycee - September 1, 2009
- Since 1999, when he was placed under California parole supervision for a 1976 rape in Nevada, Phillip Garrido, 58, was subject to drug testing, required to wear a GPS...
- Misplaced Outrage Over 'Torture' - August 30, 2009
- When he served as deputy attorney general, now Attorney General Eric Holder gave a "neutral leaning positive" recommendation that led to President Bill Clinton's...
- The State Prison Mess - August 27, 2009
- Earlier this month, three federal judges -- Stephen Reinhardt, Lawrence Karlton and Thelton Henderson -- ordered the release of more than 40,000 of California's 160,000...
- The Mysterious Case of Scottish Justice - August 25, 2009
- When convicted Pan Am Flight 103 killer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi landed to a hero's welcome in Libya last week, there was no question about it: Our Betters in Europe...
- Too Big to Vote? - August 23, 2009
- How do you run for California's top political offices when you often have failed to vote yourself and have no political experience? Some big names in the GOP have...
- Middle-aged Rant - August 20, 2009
- At a recent Colorado town hall, University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn asked President Obama how private insurers could be expected to compete with a public...
- Obama in Paradise - August 18, 2009
- When Barack Obama was 11, his mother and grandmother took him and his half-sister Maya on the most American of family vacations -- a road trip that included Yellowstone...
- The Flight 2816 Fiasco - August 16, 2009
- The latest infamous incident of Major Airline Tarmac Dysfunction occurred in Minnesota last weekend when a severe storm curtailed Continental ExpressJet Flight 2816. The...
- Congress Jet-Sets Further Into the Red - August 13, 2009
- First a confession: I've never flown on a private jet. I've never flown on a Gulfstream. Never flown on a private 737 "office in the sky." So it could be that I am...
- Is Crowding Criminogenic? - August 11, 2009
- The first thing you have to know when you read that California's 33 adult prisons -- like the state prison in Chino where riots erupted over the weekend -- are operating...
- Rally Around the Flag - August 9, 2009
- Imagine it's four years ago and an aide to President Bush posted a blog on the Whitehouse.gov website that bemoaned Internet criticism of the Iraq war, then continued:...
- Hazardous to America's Health - August 6, 2009
- You know that American voters aren't feeling the love for ObamaCare when House members hold town-hall meetings in their districts, only to be heckled and booed. No...
- Keep Life Without Parole, Life After Death - August 2, 2009
- Because courts can sentence murderers to life without parole, why not get rid of the death penalty? It's a frequent question posed by readers and advocates who oppose...
- No Thin Line Between Murder and Hate - July 30, 2009
- When the Senate passed a federal hate-crimes measure by a 63-28 earlier this month, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., proclaimed, "This legislation will help to address the...
- 'Birthers' Are Truly Certifiable - July 28, 2009
- The video features an angry woman in red, armed with a birth certificate and a small American flag, scolding Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., at a town meeting. She is angry,...